Bruce Nesmith is a guy whose name you may never heard even if you're a big fan of Bethesda's games. He got his start working with famed Dungeons & Dragons publisher TSR on Apple II games, and joined Bethesda as early as 1995, where he was credited as a designer on The Elder Scrolls: Chapter II - Daggerfall. Nesmith...Read more...
HP EliteBook 1040 Gen11 (Starts at $1,699, $2,099 as tested) HP's 11th Elitebook 1040 is a workhorse of a laptop with a minimalist, thin and light design with a solid feature set for business users. Great All-Day Battery Life Slim Size And Light Weight Minimal Pre-Installed Bloatware Extremely Quiet Operation Standard...Read more...
The European Union has launched what it refers to as “specification proceedings” in an effort to ensure that Apple is meeting its obligations under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), after the commission made it known that it would be investigating the company's behavior. The two proceedings will take place over the next...Read more...
YouTube unveiled new creation tools at its annual Made on YouTube event aimed at helping creators build communities by enhancing viewer interaction and creator monetization. From YouTube Veo to the new Community Hub, there were plenty of announcements to help creators big and small.
Just What Is Veo
Dream Screen...Read more...
If you are a fan of small form factor PC cases, Fractal Design has just unveiled its Era 2. Coming in at a healthy $199 MSRP, the case will be available in three distinct colors. silver, blue, and gray form the palette for the exterior, with an elegant solid walnut wood piece on top. The anodized aluminum is gorgeous...Read more...
Astronomers have detected the largest pair of black hole jets ever seen. The pair spans 23-million light-years, or the equivalent to lining up 140 Milky Way galaxies back to back.
According to NASA, supermassive black holes are millions to tens of billions times the mass of the Sun. A census using the Hubble Space...Read more...
Toyota has announced plans to take a Supra to the Repco Australian Supercars Championships in 2026, taking on the likes of V8-powered stalwarts like Ford Mustangs and Chevy Camaros. To do that, Toyota Australia will be stuffing a modified GR Supra with the sweet 2UR-GSE V8 from the top-dawg Lexus LC500 and...Read more...
Minisforum is far from a stranger to the mini PC scene, and is often out there employing the latest silicon in its miniaturized systems. That isn't about to change. To the contrary, the company has taken to Weibo, a massive social media site in China, to tease an upcoming EliteMini AI370 mini PC built around AMD's...Read more...
If you're interested in picking up a PlayStation 5 Pro console, you still have to wait a few weeks before preorders officially open. However, some major retailers have already prepped preorder pages, including Amazon and Best Buy, and it makes sense to bookmark one or both—you can never be too prepared for a new...Read more...
Bose is sticking it to Apple's newly announced AirPods 4 with the QuietComfort Earbuds. Deemed an "everyday" device, the QuietComfort combines Bose's legendary active noise cancelling (ANC) prowess, audio performance, water resistance, long battery life, and affordability, into a more compact package over its...Read more...
Palworld, the first game to become a hit in 2024, now finds itself at the center of a legal battle. The game’s developer, Pocketpair, is being sued by Nintendo alongside The Pokémon Company. In a statement, Nintendo says that “this lawsuit seeks an injunction against infringement and compensation for damages on the...Read more...
Has Microsoft lost the current-generation console war? That's a loaded question, but if strictly looking at the number of Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S consoles sold versus how many PlayStation 5 systems are in the wild, then the answer is yes, and it really hasn't been a close fight—Sony's PS5 unit sales to date...Read more...
The Rockstar Games Launcher on PC just got another update yesterday, and along with the patch came down yet more evidence of a forthcoming release for the first Red Dead Redemption game on PC. We knew this was happening; the same fellow who sniffed out the new evidence, found strings buried in the Rockstar Launcher...Read more...
Electronic Arts is making big claims about how it leverages AI for its business, as it looks to keep current projects on track, according to the presentation executives made during this year’s Investor Day. CEO Andrew Wilson stressed the importance of AI, noting that “this remarkable technology is not merely a...Read more...
Despite all the controversy around the game’s monetization strategy, Diablo IV has managed to rake in a billion dollars in revenue, with a good chunk of its sales coming from microtransactions. It’s surprising to see misconstructions flourish this much, as the most vocal criticism of the game stemmed from the...Read more...
Snap has announced its next generation Spectacles, a new see-through, standalone pair of AR glasses. The glasses are powered by Snap OS, the company’s new operating system designed to enhance how people naturally interact with the world.
Snap put its first pair of shades on back in 2016 with the first generation of...Read more...
It looks as though HTC is trying to fill the gap between Apple's ultra-pricey Vision Pro and Meta's way more affordable Quest 3 with its new Vive Focus Vision, an extended reality (XR) headset that boasts a "wealth of improvements and new features" for both gamers and enterprise users alike. As it pertains to the...Read more...
AMD released its Ryzen 9000 series CPUs last month after a small delay and some early teething issues. We are now starting to see hints of the new motherboards for the X870 family. According to listings on B&H Photo (which the retailer ended up pulling offline), some motherboards from Gigabyte will range in price from...Read more...
Lotus has revealed a concept study called the Lotus Theory 1. This futuristic EV platform showcases a combination of speculative performance numbers (e.g. 986 horsepower, 0-62 mph in under 2.5 seconds), the company's new design study that could influence coming Lotus vehicles, and also technological ideas that seem...Read more...
Porsche Design and AOC (the display maker, not the politician) have once again collaborated on a premium gaming monitor, the Agon Pro PD34, which is sort of a smaller version of the Agon Pro PD49. As the model name suggests, it's a 34-inch panel. What it doesn't outwardly reveal is that this is a curved (1800R)...Read more...
Researchers have come across some evidence suggesting Earth had a ring system around 466 million years ago, which may have been a contributor to the global cooling event known as the Hirnantian Icehouse. The hypothesis comes from plate tectonic reconstructions for the Ordovician period, a period of unusually intense...Read more...
The television division of TCL is under the spotlight due to a Korean report purporting to show a few of its quantum dot televisions do not actually have any said quantum dots in them. TCL is firing back to the accusations with its own results proving the contrary. Who do we believe, then? Has TCL been cutting corners...Read more...